Miguel

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.

I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.